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Granite Creek Copper Ltd. June 7 announced the start of its 2022 field exploration campaign at the high-grade Carmacks copper-gold-silver project in Canada's Yukon. According to the most recent calculation, Carmacks hosts 36.2 million metric tons of measured and indicated resource averaging 0.81% (651 million pounds) copper, 0.26 grams per metric ton (302,000 ounces) gold, 3.23 g/t (3.8 million oz) silver, and 0.011% (8.5 million lb) molybdenum. The first phase of the 2022...
Seabridge Gold Inc. May 24 announced that it has entered into a contribution agreement with the Liard First Nation to build positive working relations and to enable the First Nation a meaningful review and analysis of Seabridge's expected activities at the 3 Aces gold project in southeastern Yukon. "As a responsible exploration company, we are committed to building a meaningful and positive working relationship with our Indigenous partners," said Seabridge CEO Rudi Fronk. "We...
White Gold Corp. May 18 announced its plans for the 2022 exploration program at its more than 1-million-acre (422,730 hectares) land package in Yukon's White Gold District, with particular focus on targets from last year's successful season. Much of this year's program will further evaluate targets on the White Gold property as well as the Betty Ford property to follow up on the 2021 exploration which continued to produce very encouraging results as well as to perform maiden...
Sitka Gold Corp. May 17 announced an impressive intercept among its assay results during the 2022 winter exploration program at its RC Gold project in the Yukon, reporting 205.8 meters averaging 1.01 grams per metric ton gold from surface, including 91 meters averaging 1.61 g/t gold. "Hole 23 has produced some impressive results with characteristics similar to those seen in our initial Blackjack zone discovery hole and our first follow-up hole and continues to demonstrate...
ATAC Resources Ltd. May 19 announced the start of the 2022 field season with crews mobilizing to the Nadaleen project at the eastern end of the company's Rackla Gold property in the Yukon, before drilling a copper discovery on its Connaught property near the territory's western border. In early 2020, ATAC published results from an updated preliminary economic assessment for Osiris, a Carlin-type gold deposit at Nadaleen that hosts 12.4 million metric tons of inferred resource...
Banyan Gold Corp. May 3 reported the final assay results from the diamond drill holes completed during the 2021 exploration program at the Powerline deposit on the company's AurMac property in the Yukon. "The 2021 drill program has demonstrated the extensive nature of gold mineralization around the Powerline deposit on the AurMac property and importantly, defined zones of higher grade near surface gold mineralization," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. "The 202...
Banyan Gold Corp. May 10 reported strong near-surface gold mineralization from the first nine holes drilled during the 2022 exploration program at the Powerline deposit on the company's AurMac property in the Yukon. According to a resource calculated in 2020, AurMac hosts 52.58 million metric tons in the inferred resource category averaging 0.54 grams per metric ton (903,945 oz) gold in two deposits – Powerline and Airstrip. Powerline hosts 6.58 million metric tons of this i...
CAVU Mining Corp. April 25 provided an update on its 5,000-meter drill program on the Hopper copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project located in the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the Yukon. The road-accessible 7,400-hectare (18,286 acres) Hopper project within the southern Dawson Range copper-gold belt in southwestern Yukon is presently owned by Strategic Metals Ltd. Most of the previous exploration at Hopper has focused on a skarn system...
Minto Metals Corp. April 28 reported that the results from its ongoing 2022 exploration drilling at Minto are showing strong potential for expanding the resource and life of this copper mine in the Yukon. The Minto mine has been in operation since 2007, with underground mining commencing in 2014. Over the past nearly 15 years, approximately 500 million pounds of copper have been produced from this operation. The previous owners, Capstone Mining Corp., put Minto into care and m...
Victoria Gold Corp. April 7 reported that its Eagle Mine in the Yukon produced 24,759 ounces of gold during the first quarter, down about 10% from the 26,759 oz produced during the first three months of 2021. The company attributes the drop to periods of exceptionally cold weather over the Yukon winter that impacted gold production. Gold production at heap leach operations such as Eagle lags behind mining, crushing, and ore stacking. With the operational plan over the past...
Aben Resources Ltd. April 19 announced an update for its Justin gold project in southeastern Yukon, including the ongoing search for a partner to move the nearly decade-old project forward. The 7,400-hectare (18,286 acres) Justin gold project, which lies immediately southeast of Seabridge Gold's high-grade 3 Aces gold project and approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles) southeast of the Cantung Mine, is equipped with an all-season road running through its claims. Exploration...
Klondike Gold Corp. April 21 reported an update for its planned 2022 exploration program at its 586-square-kilometer (226 square miles) Klondike District property near Dawson City, Yukon. For this year, Klondike Gold plans to complete approximately 8,000 meters of drilling using up to two rigs. The work will initially target potential extensions to gold mineralization at the Stander zone, which has previously yielded near-surface drill intersections with the highest gold...
White Gold Corp. April 21 reported that regional exploration work on its more than 1-million-acre (422,730 hectares) land package in Yukon's White Gold District has identified significant copper, gold, and other multi-element soil anomalies within the Hayes and Pilot properties. "Our regional exploration program normally constitutes a significant portion of our annual exploration budget and has continued to identify prospective new targets across our large district scale land...
After being spun out from parent purchaser Pembridge Resources plc, Minto Metals Corp. April 6 announced the company's first-quarter production results from its Minto copper mine in central Yukon. Bought from Capstone Mining Corp. early in 2018, Pembridge managed to complete its first full year of operations in 2020, despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Toward the end of that year, the company completed the formation of Minto Metals Corp., a TSX Venture...
Whitehorse Gold Corp. April 1 announced assay results from the final 30 drill holes of its 2021 program at its Skukum gold project in southern Yukon. Situated about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Whitehorse, the Skukum project hosts 1.33 million metric tons of indicated resource containing 274,544 ounces of gold and 5.36 million oz of silver; plus 1.11 metric tons of inferred resource containing 223,873 oz of gold and 1.91 million oz of silver. The bulk of this resource is...
Granite Creek Copper Ltd. March 15 announced an updated NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate, showing a major increase in tonnage and contained metal at its wholly-owned Carmacks copper-gold-silver and now added molybdenum project in the highly prospective Minto Copper Belt of central Yukon, Canada. After acquiring Copper North Mining Corp. in late 2020, Granite Creek expanded its land position within Yukon's Minto Copper Belt to 176 square kilometers (68 square miles). This...
Alexco Resource Corp. March 21 announced an update on the scale-up of mining operations at its Keno Hill project in the Yukon, as well as the anticipated mining and exploration activities for 2022. According to the most recent calculation, the Keno Hill Silver District hosts 1.44 billion metric tons of probable reserves averaging 804 grams per metric ton (37.19 million ounces) silver, 3.84% (122 million pounds) zinc, and 2.64% (84 million lb) lead in four deposits – B... Full story
Victoria Gold Corp. Feb. 28 announced assay results from its 2021 Dublin Gulch exploration program at the Raven gold target about 13 kilometers (eight miles) east of the Eagle Mine, with news quickly following on results from the Lynx target returning results as well. Discovered with soil sampling and trenching in 2018, Raven is a large, near-surface gold target associated with Nugget, the second-largest known intrusive body on the Dublin Gulch property. Trenching in 2018 and...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. March 16 announced the final assay results from the 2021 exploration program at its road-accessible Klaza property, located in the Dawson Range Gold Belt in southern Yukon, Canada. A 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza outlines plans for a mine that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over 12 years. After drilling a total of 14,256 meters in 72 holes during the summer and fall of 2021, the last batch...
President and CEO of ATAC Resources Ltd. Graham Downs recently issued a letter to shareholders that reviews the company's portfolio of mineral exploration projects and outlines plans for 2022, including its goals for its flagship property, the Rackla Gold property in the Yukon. "The last two years have provided obvious challenges. However, during this time we have been very active advancing our copper-gold projects and conducting numerous comprehensive property evaluations,...
Rockhaven Resources Ltd. Mar. 7 announced additional assay results from the 2021 exploration program at its road-accessible Klaza property, located in the Dawson Range Gold Belt of southern Yukon. Based on a 2020 preliminary economic assessment for Klaza, the project outlines plans for a mine that would produce roughly 750,000 ounces of gold and 13.8 million oz of silver over 12 years. During the summer and fall of 2021, Rockhaven drilled a total of 14,256 meters in 72 holes....
Fireweed Zinc Ltd. Mar. 10 announced the results from the last two holes at the Boundary West target – a recent discovery at the company's MacMillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project in Canada's Yukon. "The 2021 work was highlighted by new discoveries and excellent results especially at Boundary West," said Fireweed Zinc CEO Brandon Macdonald. "The 2021 drill program continued to grow Boundary and Boundary West. We continued to intersect wide high-grade zones over a large area a...
Victoria Gold Corp. Feb. 24 reported that 6,103 meters of drilling completed in nine holes testing Eagle Deep indicates the potential to add millions of ounces of gold below the reserves at the company's Eagle Mine in the Yukon. Exploring the potential of extending the Eagle deposit from the 350-meter depth considered in the current mine plan to depths of at least 650 meters is part of Victoria's plan to delineate enough mineralization to keep the Eagle Mine in operation out t...
Banyan Gold Corp. Feb. 21 announced the results from 21 diamond holes drilled during the company's 2021 exploration program at the Powerline deposit located on its AurMac gold property in the Yukon. "This latest batch of assay results from our 2021 drill program continues to showcase the extensive nature of gold mineralization around the Powerline deposit on the AurMac property," said Banyan Gold President and CEO Tara Christie. Highlights from the latest batch include: • 5...
White Gold Corp. Feb. 10 announced that the maiden diamond drill program at Ulli's Ridge has cut high-grade gold at this discovery target about 3,000 meters southwest of the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits on the company's White Gold property in the Yukon. The Golden Saddle and Arc deposits host 15.6 million metric tons of indicated resource averaging 2.28 grams per metric ton (1.14 million ounces) gold; and 9 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 1.39 g/t...
